What does the name El Niño mean?
Every three to five years during the months of December and January, fish in the waters off the coasts Peru and Ecuador vanish like magic. This causes much damage to the area’s fishing industry. A long time ago fishermen who fished in these waters called this big fish disappearance “El Niño,” because it happened near the celebration of the birth of Jesus, the Christ Child. El Niño is Spanish for referring to the Christ Child.
